Thursday, May 1, 2014

May

1

1944

Special rations and fear help things along, there’s grumbling here and there, but on the whole people carry on with self-conﬁdent Berlin wit and cockiness. No one is expecting imminent defeat; some say the war will last another two years, others, that the decisive German “retribution” is at hand. (For months there was official talk of “retribution,” then the public scoffed at it, then nothing more was heard of it. And now it pops up again in this account.)